Synonyms for legislative branch
leg·isla·tive branch

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1. legislative branchnoun

   Synonyms:
   legislature

2. legislative branchnoun

   The branch of government which is concerned with the making of laws

   Synonyms:
   legislature

Princeton's WordNet

1. legislative branchnoun

   the branch of the United States government that has the power of legislating

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1. Ted Cruz:

   I want to reiterate the fact that I'm not a senator, in case anyone was worried about that, i would never run for the legislative branch.

2. Nancy Pelosi:

   The legislative branch has a responsibility of oversight of our democracy and we will exercise that.

3. Paul Ryan:

   We've talked about the Constitution, Article 1 on the Constitution, the separation of powers, he feels very strongly, actually, that under President Obama's watch, President Obama stripped a lot of power away from the Constitution, away from the legislative branch of government, and we want to reset the balance of power so that people and the Constitution are rightfully restored.

4. House Judiciary chairman:

   And its not up to anybody from the executive branch to tell the legislative branch how to conduct our business.

5. House Speaker Paul Ryan:

   While we don't yet know the details of the plan, the President is at minimum subverting the legislative branch, and potentially overturning its will, his proposals to restrict gun rights were debated by the United States Senate, and they were rejected. No President should be able to reverse legislative failure by executive fiat, not even incrementally.